Hi everybody.
My colleagues and I are totally confused about ODBC. Perhaps
some-one can answer these fundamental questions:
- What determines if an IDE allows ODBC or not? For example,
MS ACCESS and VB support it directly - Oracle Developer has an
OCA layer for converting Oracle SQL calls into ODBC calls - but can
I write ODBC calls directly within Oracle Forms for example?
- ODBC driver managers exist for Unix (which was a surprise to me - I
had always taken it to be Windows only). So if I install such
a piece of software on my Unix server, can I then start writing
applications that are ODBC compliant?
- Can all programming languages make ODBC calls - Say I'm developing
a C application on Unix, can I directly write ODBC calls, or use
some sort of pre-compiler technology?
- People talk about MS Visual C++ and how it supports a c++ ODBC API
(presumably different from the standard ODBC API)? Why does it support
a different standard? Does this answer my previous question?
- Oracle Application Server included an ODBC cartridge. What exactly
does this cartridge allow one to do? Can I now make ODBC calls
from within my PL/SQL, Java cartridges? I'm confused? If my OAS sits
on an NT platform, I already have ODBC software - so what does
the OAS ODBC cartridge add to the picture?
Thanks for all insights.
Coakleyj
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